second time around

As we discussed in class on thursday, the plot is moved along in the story by the characters, and that these characters are joined to nature and their individual history. But what if that the environment is itself a character and that it interacts with the persons in the plot? In this final essay I will show that the environment affects the people characters in the story and how this interaction affects the psyche and that between the two can move the plot of the story. For the Gothic, I will use:
Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker.
Dark Romanticism, slected works of Edgar Allen Poe is a natural selection for this section of the essay.


If you please Julie, I am having trouble finding sources for what we talked about, I searched ebsco and jstor any other suggestions?

Step 1 for the final paper

For this, our final paper I will be discussing the relationhsip between Dark Romanticism and the Gothic genre. For the Gothic aspect I will be using Edgar Huntly and for the Dark Romanticism of course I will use Poe's Ligeia. Now thats not say that Ploidori is strictly out of the question, I just haven't decided yet as to whether or not I will need to go into it that far. Also if time allows and I can make it work I would like to discuss some early gothic paintings that we have discussed in class using but not limited to Rossitti. I want to find out if indeed the two genre's are related in some manner. By using the class readings and other research material I should be able to answer the question, Are They Related? The reason that I have chosen the above mentioned genre is that they are of intrest to me and would like to find out more about them.

Driving Miss Daisy

I tried and tried to find another approach to what Howells was saying in his article about Daisy Miller and I couldn't. I found this story a bit irratating at best. For me this story is a about atypical americans, in other words who we are not. They are portrayed as rich or at least well to do, which most are not. Daisy doesnt seem to realize that not all americans know each other nor do they know of the same people that she knows, "There was an English lady we met in the cars-I think her name was Miss Featherstone; perhaps you know her". I did not get "that color" that we talked about in class nor the flavor of europe, it could just have been a setting in the hampton's or any other setting where the upper crust hang out. She tries to fit in using big words and phrases that quite frankly most other people dont use, "he's the most fastidious man I ever saw" (had to look that one up).I don't see Daisy as an independent women but as someone who doesn't know who she is or where she is going, even though she quite a bit older than her brother, she is still just a child. This almost seems that she has been so sheltered that she doesnt quite have a grasp of what the real world is all about. Miss Daisy speaks of society, "The only thing I don't like,' she proceeded, 'is the society. Thre isn't any society; or if there is, I don't know where it keeps itself". She talks of society (her circles?) as if everyone else doesn't exist. If she was in the high circles or high society she would know were they hang out and surley wouldn't be hanging out, walking the streets and talking to strangers at an outside cafe. Again she doesn't know where her place is in society.